On the future of conservatism. My name is ryan williams, i am president of the Claremont Institute. Before we get started, i would like to offer a few remarks by way of introduction. Our mission at the Claremont Institute is to restore the principles of the american founding to their rightful and preeminent authorities in our national light. To startt it fitting coming to the American Political Science Association over 30 years ago to provide a safe space for the serious discussion of political things for academic friends, admirers, and intelligent critics. Political science over the past halfcentury, much like the social sciences in general, has been obsessed with or consumed by often narrow and therefore measurable aspects of Human Affairs. With the underlying assumption that any great into facts must be separated from any discussion of values. , toave always thought paraphrase leo strauss, to the extent of Human Affairs and political things cannot be properly understood without taki
Way of introduction. Our mission at the Claremont Institute is to restore the principles of the american founding to their rightful and preeminent authorities in our national light. To startt it fitting coming to the American Political Science Association over 30 years ago to provide a safe space for the serious discussion of political things for academic friends, admirers, and intelligent critics. Political science over the past halfcentury, much like the social sciences in general, has been obsessed with or consumed by often narrow and therefore measurable aspects of Human Affairs. Much of modern Political Science must miss a crucial part of political things by leaving aside questions of value. It is in that sense very unscientific, or can be. We have always made our focus the scholarship of the politics of freedom. That brings me to our panel path topic today, the future of conservatism. The future of conservatism indeed the shape and future of our national politics, generally is an
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Life, hi everyone glad to have you im neil cavuto. Well, at t, comcast, wells fargo quite a few Companies Already handing out bonuses making new investments because of the republican tax cut Charles Payne says more will likely follow their lead, also joining in is charlie gasparino, weve got deirdre b back with us and along with ben stein. Charles what do you make of this , early signs that look like were getting more than we thought from some companies. Its alive. Its alive. Neil [laughter] thats not bad. The economy is already rock ing and rolling and we saw already theres a whole slate of names the biggest tell a lot of people miss it tuesday, fedex reported and in their report the ceo said we are going to hire people were going to spend money on infrastructure, and were going to fund our pensions and we are also going to do that and have a buck extra for the bottom line was the first on tuesday, so this i dont see how anyone could be against this and certainly is going to be an up
Life, hi everyone glad to have you im neil cavuto. Well, at t, comcast, wells fargo quite a few Companies Already handing out bonuses making new investments because of the republican tax cut Charles Payne says more will likely follow their lead, also joining in is charlie gasparino, weve got deirdre b back with us and along with ben stein. Charles what do you make of this , early signs that look like were getting more than we thought from some companies. Its alive. Its alive. Neil [laughter] thats not bad. The economy is already rock ing and rolling and we saw already theres a whole slate of names the biggest tell a lot of people miss it tuesday, fedex reported and in their report the ceo said we are going to hire people were going to spend money on infrastructure, and were going to fund our pensions and we are also going to do that and have a buck extra for the bottom line was the first on tuesday, so this i dont see how anyone could be against this and certainly is going to be an up